England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as
to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful
land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches
herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.
-- Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)
-- Supposititious Speech of James Otis, The Rebels, Chap, iv
